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Monday, July 25, 2016

Today's #flashfiction

“Don't head towards the light!”

Mothra* #quote

People talk about using your head, but what using your lungs or
kidneys? Aren't those important too?

Philip The Astronaut

Philip the astronaut climbed along the outside of his space station
to perform maintenance on one of the outside cameras. Something had
been shaken loose and he needed to repair it. The trip went as
planned, every movement taken with the caution. Just like practiced
on the simulation chambers on Earth where they suspended you from
wires to simulate space he felt the routine as brushing his teeth.

Then something caught his eye. A cardboard box. It floated in space
just out of reach and had strange markings on it. Like an alien
language. The box was closed with tape. On stamps on the box were
pictures of a monstrous face. Philip couldn't believe the conclusion
his brain reached. Was he looking at lost mail in space? Did some
alien ship loose a shipment?

Earth's gravity pulled the box in out of reach and without the
camera on only his word would be proof of the box. The mail would
burn up in the atmosphere. Philip decided he'd rather not sound crazy
and decided to never speak of the box and tried to forget about it as
he fixed the camera and returned to the space station.